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Garrett Wack is playing his final season of baseball for Catonsville this spring, but it was his switch to football that helped him earn one of high school's most impressive awards. Wack was one of five regional winners selected at the 52nd Scholar Athlete Awards Dinner on March 11. The event, hosted by the Greater Baltimore Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame, gave $4,000 scholarship checks to five athletes from different geographical areas for use at their colleges. Also selected were: Jelani Roberts (Gilman School), Liam Butler (Winters Mill), Alexander Plotkin (Archbishop Spalding) and Andrew Visconti (Bel Air). Seventy-nine players were...

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